Regardless of your industry or stage of growth, technology should be focused on growing revenue, serving and retaining customers, providing meaningful executive information, and promoting efficiencies.  Those goals are too often threatened by inadequate planning or leadership of the technology function.

PieDesigns offers the experienced leadership needed to maximize your current IT investment and aggressively plan for the future.  Our unique IT model allows you to engage a PieDesigns on a project, interim, or employed basis…full- or part-time.

Engaging PieDesigns gives you access to the intellectual capital and experience of the entire firm.  The flexibility in structuring each engagement allows solutions tailored to your individual needs.  Please review some of our common solutions below and then contact us to discuss how PieDesigns can assist you.

Our Solutions
Citrix MetaFrame & Terminal Server Services
IT Consulting
Network Design & Support
Remote Data Backup
Software & Database Development
Website Development & Hosting
Server & Device Administration

Citrix MetaFrame & Terminal Server Services
Access to information resources has become a critical issue for organizations from two perspectives – on the one hand, ubiquitous access is essential for growth and competitive advantage; on the other, the struggle to deliver this access in a world of system and user complexity threatens to overwhelm IT. Organizations are looking for a new approach that will not only give users access at their fingertips to the information required to build the business, but also will make IT’s job easier. By replacing a patchwork of tactics with a comprehensive access strategy, delivered with an access infrastructure solution, any organization can become an on-demand enterprise where information is securely, easily and instantly accessible from anywhere, using any device or connection.  For more information on this solution or an initial consultation please contact us.

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IT Consulting
You want to be the best, but maybe you need some help getting there. Help with technology. With strategy. With change. The first step to achieving great results is determining where you want to go. The next is finding the right partner to help get you there. PieDesigns might be that partner. With our unique, collaborative approach, we offer not only industry and functional business performance knowledge, but also the insight of others through our consulting alliances.  Additionally, security is increasingly becoming a focus for directors of corporate boards who view it as a strategic investment that can reap measurable benefits.  Estimates for the loss from a security breach of one shipping container alone can amount to US$1 trillion.  Security has expanded from primarily protecting assets and people to sustaining business — no matter what type of interruption might occur.  PieDesigns Technology Experts are certified in IT Security and can assist your business for potential risk/loss.  For more information on this solution or an initial consultation please contact us.

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Network Design and Support
PieDesigns offers affordable maintenance plans that include planned service for your network, significantly reducing possibilities for unplanned outages. Our technicians will monitor your network, servers, workstations, and key points of failure such as network routers, hubs and switches, and other network electronics on a regular basis. You can rest with the assurance that all reasonable measures are being taken to prevent such disruptions as virus attacks, network intrusions, and other network security exposures. PieDesigns can also assist in the planning, design and implementation of a local/wide/metro area network.  For more information on this solution or an initial consultation please contact us.

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Remote Data Backup
Remote Backup works basically like regular data backup software, with one important difference. Instead of sending backups to a tape drive or other media attached to the computer it is backing up, Remote Backup sends the backup over regular telephone lines or network connections to another computer safely offsite. It does this (usually) at night while your computers aren't being used. It’s completely automatic. In fact, you may even forget it’s working. Most businesses put their lives on the line every night and don’t realize it. With businesses depending more and more on the data stored in their computers, proper backups are becoming much more critical. Remote Backup accomplishes several essential steps that are often overlooked or done improperly by other backup software - especially in the regular non-automated backup systems.  For more information on this solution or an initial consultation please contact us.

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Software & Database Development
The PieDesigns development team uses many languages to tap into the power of commercial and open-source SQL databases, mainframes and other back-end data stores. In addition to open-source resources, we have an extensive library of our own proprietary, pre-packaged code, functions, frameworks, servlets and other utilities. We follow a Rational-esque, iterative development process: Discovery, Requirements, Specification, Development, Testing, Deployment and Monitoring to ensure complete project satisfaction. We work well together with existing IT departments, adhere to our client's protocols / standards and can do our coding on or off site. If you do not have an IT department then PieDesigns can facilitate in that capacity as well.  For more information on this solution or an initial consultation please contact us.

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Website Development & Hosting
PieDesigns can assist your organization in the development and hosting of websites and online services. We will work with you to design a unique and specialized website to accommodate your business, without the use of pre-designed templates or ready-made solutions. Your customized website and PieDesigns' management services ensure that your online presence creates an impact with prospective clients, investors and business partners. Additionally, with our superior integration services and proprietary application interfaces, we can link your company's website to your back and front end systems to provide secure and accurate interfacing of the systems.  For more information on this solution or an initial consultation please contact us.

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Server & Device Administration
The systems and expertise needed to build, deploy and operate servers are complex and require substantial technical and administrative investments. Few companies want to invest in the resources needed to establish and maintain a Web-oriented data center.

PieDesigns offers comprehensive administrative services designed specifically to support an enterprise hosting environment. Our Server and Device Administration capabilities include:

Network Administration
We manage the provisioning, deployment, testing and ongoing management of all networking devices, including routers, switches, SSL accelerators, firewalls, routing tables and VPNs.

Hardware Administration
We closely monitor customer hardware and other devices to identify and resolve emerging issues to provide the highest possible levels of uptime and performance.

Operating System Administration
We install, license and maintain a wide variety of operating systems for your server and needs. Including Windows, Linux and Unix platforms.

Software Administration
We also manage the installation of your Operating System and supporting software. This includes the provisioning, testing and deployment of security patches, service packs, upgrades and revisions. By closely monitoring log files and other indicators, we can provide valuable insight into site performance, traffic patterns, disk space usage and other variables.

Application Administration
We offer assistance with the installation of supported applications and can provide remote administrative and application management resources. These application services include managed backup, database administration and data migration.

For more information on this solution or an initial consultation please contact us.

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